At the urging of magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, President Abraham Lincoln declared an annual national holiday of ...
President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.
Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.
A magazine "editress" tried for decades to persuade the president to declare "a day for our national rejoicing." Lincoln ...
While today's Thanksgiving is known for parades, football, and shopping, the original intent was far different.
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags did indeed share a harvest celebration together at Plymouth in fall 1621, but that moment got ...
For Lincoln, Thanksgiving was a day to not only reflect on our blessings but repent for our shortcomings and find ways to ...
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country,” the ...
President Joe Biden expressed his "gratitude to the American people" and called the United states the "greatest country on ...
While the 1621 feast wasn’t called “Thanksgiving” at the time, it set the stage for a holiday that would become a cornerstone ...